Re: Why wasn't escape tower used on Gemini?



mmaker@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

If it didn't deploy correctly, wouldn't they just be ejecting into the
failed parawing? All that cloth and the support lines would surely get
in the way of a safe ejection if it partially deployed.



I always wondered that also; I assume you sever the lines and hope the thing leaves the vicinity of the capsule before you eject.
In retrospect this was a pretty ambitious proposal for something that was supposed to be a fairly simple spacecraft.
They investigated landing Apollo via parawing, but that also went nowhere.

Pat
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